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21 thoughts on “Lamers running wild”

This is a joke that started on 4chan’s tech board. The board isn’t meant for tech support questions, but clueless Windows users would constantly pop up and ask questions that could’ve been answered with some quick Google searching. As a result, disgruntled users would tell these annoying people “delete system32 and reboot, and it’ll solve your problem.” Harmless fun? Maybe not, but you can guess that most of these tech support-seeking morons didn’t come back to make more annoying posts.

Anyway, with the recent influx of Digg-reading morons into the Linux community (especially Ubuntu), there have been an increase of tech support questions on 4chan’s tech board regarding Linux. 4chan’s tech board is not for support; the various distros’ forums are. So 4channers told these people “enter sudo rm -rf / in a terminal and that’ll solve the problem.”

Obviously, someone from 4chan has gone to the Ubuntu forum and is trying to troll people. 4chan’s tech board isn’t for support; the Ubuntu forum is. Someone’s just trying to be an asshat.

Yeah, there’s always the odd fellow that will spam “/join 0,0″ on IRC.. but erasing one’s system is on a totally different level. Still don’t understand why 4chan gets the credit when in reality tricking someone into typing a potentially dangerous command predates even the internet…way back to the DOS days and “try del *.*, that should fix it!” :p

If I read it right, it’s just a substitution code. s is set to the letter “r”, s2 is that same “r” with an “m” tacked on, and then that last variable is fed to the shell with “-rf /home” at the end. In effect it’s the same thing, just shrouded.